Archive for 2008/05


From My Side Of The Screen

Just because you believe in yourself doesn’t mean I should. I’m constantly inundated with people frustrated that they haven’t made it. Everybody says how great they are, their family, their friends, how come they can’t break through? If only they were on the radio. Won’t someone invest in them? You’d think that record companies are […]

Tioga Pass

I have OCD. Otherwise known as Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Oh, you know the sufferers. They’re the ones aligning the silverware at the table, the ones washing their hands, the ones living in fear that you will discover their condition, which they’re ashamed of. I spent numerous hours cleaning my records in the seventies. I thought it […]

The Ticket Comes With The Album

Back when concert tickets and albums were almost the same price, I’d buy the new record before I went to the show. That’s what would happen. The band would go on the road and play most of the new album and a few old hits. If you didn’t know the new material, you were lost […]

The Window

If the Internet is so damn fast, why is exploitation so SLOW! In other words, if the Beatles can release three albums in one year, why does Mariah Carey have to wait three years to release ANOTHER! One can argue that Mariah’s new record, E=MC2, is already over. As is Madonna’s "Hard Candy". If movies […]